The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-03-23

MIR. Blaine IS to go to Europe in May, if
lie does not change his mind before that
time.
Miss Cleveland dined with Mrs. Beechcr
at the %latter's home in Brooklyn on Sunday
afternoon.
Cardinal Manning has heartily endorsed
the policy advocated by Cardinal Gibbons
towards the Knights of Labor.
The official arrangements for the Worlds
Exhibition in Paris in 1880, are now com.
plctc.
The total of persons killed in the rail.
road wreck is now put ut "a, and the
wounded at about $50.
VIM. II. Travers continues to grow
weaker and now sees nobody but his init.
mate friends.
General Sheridan is TO build a summer
home near New Bedford, on the Massachu-
sets coast.
Senator and Mrs Edmunds will mo- leave
Washington for Vermont until the middle
of May.
Senators Sherman and ingalls,, with the
other members of their Washington party,
have arrived at Havana.
The New York coopcrs have renowned
all allegiance to the Knights of Labor, and
nave gonc back to work at reduced wages.
The melting of snow and ice is causing
ovcrtlows of the Missouri river and its
tributaries.
EX-Alderman O'Neill is said to pass his
leisure time in Sing-Sing in the earnest
study of st. Augustinc's confessions.
The health of cx,Prcsidcnt James d..
Fish continues to grow worse, and it is
thought that he will be pardoned to avoid
his death in prison.
Tho Rrit;cl .r;s,,,,,,. &, 1,..,. l:l:
gently worked" in the effort to insure n
large attendance at Mrs. James Brown Pot
tcrs debut, which occurs on lhc Goth inst.
Lizzie MCGOWAN. aged Is years, of Chi.
copec, Miss, while tempo rarily insane,
took sufficient Paris green to kill % persons
and died in 10 minutes.
An engine and tcnder went through the
railroad trestlc near Marietta, Ohio, killing
inc engineer and the fireman and seriously
sCaldlng the conductor and a brakeman.
The report that there was n GOODNESS be.
tween the President and Secretary Endi.
colt is denied by the press and denounced
by MIR. Cleveland.
Fanuic Rasch, a New Orleans widow
who followed the occupation of rag. picker.
was found dead in bed with $4,000 con
cealed about her shabbiIy-furiished room.
The White and cOlorcd women in Kansas
are being organized TO vote at the coming
Sprlhg election which promises to be an OK
citing one.
Beyond a few scrimmagcs in London
derry and elsewhere, st. Patrick's day was
observed in an orderly manner throughout
Ireland.
The New York Engtneey3ng Ae,cs says
me disaster on Forest Hill Bridge, near
boston, was due to its defective construc.
ton
The Treasury Department has received
an opinion from the first Controller, to the
elect that Congress failed to appropriate
money for the agricultural stations.
The Illinois Legislature has voted down
Il resolution to submit Il prohibitory amend
lacnt TO the people at the next general cleo
ton. The vote was 90 yeas, % nays.
An Ottawa, Ont, dispatch says that an
ot!Gr last sailing schooner has been added
TO the fisheries protection cruiser fleet for
use during the coming summer.
ne French Chamber of Deputies. by n
vote OF 32S against 23S, approved the bill
imposing n duty of five francs per 100
Hilos on wheat imports.
The case against the parties charged with
inc shooting of Culbrcath, in Edgcfcld,
has been postponed, on the ground of alb.
scncc OF defendants witnesses.
The Governor of Tennessee has signed
the bill submitting to the people a prohibi
ton amendment to the Constitution. The
election will be held ext September.
The silk mills in Union Mills, N. Y,
have been obliged to shut down, owing to
the strike in the mills ut Paterson. Over
%Oo men and women are out of employ.
ment.
AT meeting of Congregational minis.
tcrS IN Chicago a statement highly culogis-
tic of the Rev. III. w. ,Bcecher was adopted
and ordered placed on the records.
The Duchess of Otranto committed sui
ut Paris Tuesday by blowing her brains
out with a revolver. She was oVerwrought
with grief at the recent death Of her hus.
band.
Charles Reilly, the famous short stop of
the Princeton Browns for several seasons |
past. has Just been secured by the Savan- |
nah Southern League Club.
When last heard from, Secretary Bayard
had met the lady only twice to whom lie
is said to be engaged, both of those times
having been in public places.
The British war Office authorities have
made arrangements for transportation from
Canada to London during the coming sea. |
son OF 5000 horses for artillery trains.
The Hon. Willis p. Bocock. twice Attor-
ney General of Virginia and a member of
the Constitutional Convention of 1850. |
died Monday in Appomattox county, aged
80 years.
Stockholders in Richmond and West
Point Terminal want President Sully to
resign, in order that they may elect Mr..
inman to his place. They say MI. Sully
is too fond of speculation.
Some boys in Augusta tried to play a
practical joke on the Salvation Army by
an explosion of powder in an adjoining
house. Quite a panic ensued, but nobody
was hurt.
Dominick Gray, who killed his infant
child in its mothers arms and nearly killed
The mother a few days ago, died on Sunday
night in a hospital in New York from de.
Iirium tremens.
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